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derickr.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy
"PHP, 30 years of generating strings on the server"

#php #30yearsofphp #phpverse
June 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
phpc.social
Today is PHP’s 30th birthday! Keep sharing your #30YearsOfPHP stories!

#PHP
June 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
phpc.social
Do you write #PHP?

Did you know this year is PHP's 30th anniversary?

And that php[tek] by @phparch.com is the longest-running PHP conference in North America?

I have no inside knowledge about what's happening at the conference, but if I were you, I'd plan to be there.

#PHP #PHPTek #30YearsOfPHP
January 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
phpc.social
Help me piece together a complete history of the PHP programming language and its community!

github.com/phpcommunity...

#PHP #PHPC #30YearsOfPHP #PHPHistory
GitHub - phpcommunity/php-history: Collecting, preserving, and sharing the stories of the PHP programming language and its community.
Collecting, preserving, and sharing the stories of the PHP programming language and its community. - phpcommunity/php-history
github.com
January 19, 2025 at 6:16 AM
phpc.social
From @ramsey@phpc.social:

Here’s a deep cut for #JeoPHPardy:

Published in 1996, this book was the first to mention PHP by including a chapter on using PHP/FI.

#PHP #30YearsOfPHP

phpc.social/@ramsey/1137...
Ben Ramsey (@ramsey@phpc.social)
Here’s a deep cut for #JeoPHPardy: Published in 1996, this book was the first to mention PHP by including a chapter on using PHP/FI. #PHP #30YearsOfPHP
phpc.social
January 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
derickr.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy
A new member has joined the herd.

#php #elephpant #lego #30yearsofphp
A elephpant made out of Lego stands atop a white shelf. A bunch of colourful elephpants are on the shelf beneath it.
August 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
phpc.social
PHP Tek have announced speakers for the 2025 edition. It’s the 30th anniversary of PHP, so you don’t want to miss it! phptek.io

Here’s 10% off, & the Early Bird discount lasts until the end of the month, so this is the lowest price. ti.to/phptek/phpte...

See you there!

#PHP #PHPTek #30YearsOfPHP
PHP[TEK] 2025
Welcome to PHP Tek 2025 where we combine leadership, expertise, and networking in one event.
phptek.io
January 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
phpc.social
Original post: fosstodon.org/@php/1146476...
🎂 Thirty years ago today, PHP was released! How time has flown. Here's to thirty more great years! 🎉 #PHP #30YearsOfPHP
June 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
derickr.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy
Got lucky and ran into @rdohms in the KLM lounge on my way home from Amsterdam, and #phpverse. We hadn't spoken in a while so it was good to catch up.

No selfie.

#php #30yearsofphp
June 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
reiermeister.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Happy birthday #php!

It's #30yearsofphp obviously. 🎉

Thank you all who made this possible!
June 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
asgrim.dev
HaPHPy 30th birthday PHP! Join the FREE online stream of sessions PHPverse today, starting in a few hours :)

lp.jetbrains.com/phpverse-2025/

#php #30YearsOfPHP #phpcommunity #phpc #phplang
JetBrains PHPverse 2025 – Online Event Celebrating 30 Years of PHP
Join us for a free virtual event as we celebrate PHP’s 30th anniversary with top experts and thought leaders. Enjoy insightful talks, exciting announcements, and a look at the future of PHP developmen...
lp.jetbrains.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
derickr.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy
Today we celebrate 30 years of PHP at the PHPVerse online conference 🥳!

https://lp.jetbrains.com/phpverse-2025/

#php #30yearsofphp
JetBrains PHPverse 2025 – Online Event Celebrating 30 Years of PHP
Join us for a free virtual event as we celebrate PHP’s 30th anniversary with top experts and thought leaders. Enjoy insightful talks, exciting announcements, and a look at the future of PHP development.
lp.jetbrains.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
ramsey.dev
I’ve really enjoyed reading everyone’s #30yearsofphp posts today.

10 years ago, for #20yearsofphp, I wrote a thing for InfoWorld: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2243235/php-at-20-from-pet-project-to-powerhouse-3.html

@enygma also compiled a bunch of blog posts from folks, back then […]
Original post on phpc.social
phpc.social
June 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
cjr.dev
Threw some slightly-belated words about #30YearsOfPHP up on the blog…

cjr.dev/2025/06/09/b...
cjr.dev
June 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
phpc.social
Original post: phpc.social/@SecondeJ/11...
I owe my entire career to this language. I landed my first engineering role from just going to a PHP Meetup. Meetups and then conferences steered me into Developer Relations. I've made friends all over the world. I've watched it go from an underperforming, language perceived as legacy into a blazing fast, top choice for development due to crazy levels of innovation. #30YearsOfPHP
June 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
phpc.social
Original post: fosstodon.org/@dantleech/1...
I started my #PHP journey in 2006 after realising that I was not going to be a rockstar. I developed a local gig-listing website that scraped gigs from myspace: https://web.archive.org/web/20060614214346/http://www.bathgigs.co.uk/ I had a full time job 6 months later! #30yearsofphp
June 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
woodworker.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy
Without #php i wouldn't be the dev i am today. Even though I don't write it anymore on a daily basis still happy birthday #30yearsofphp
June 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
phpc.social
Original post: phpc.social/@pollita/114...
30 years ago, Rasmus unleashed PHP upon the world. A very short time later, a 21 year old me found PHP3 and fell in love immediately. By 2002, I was submitting my first patches, within weeks I had direct commit karma. By 2006 I was speaking at conferences, writing a book on extensions, and Rasmus was personally recommending me for jobs. I've seen PHP grow through most of its life. I've seen the lives of our community grow and change and been changed by it in return. #30YearsOfPHP 🧵(1/2)
June 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
derickr.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy
I spoke to Richard MacManus of The New Stack on the occasion of PHP's 30th birthday.

The Herd Is Strong: PHP and Its Developer Ecosystem at 30: https://thenewstack.io/the-herd-is-strong-php-and-its-developer-ecosystem-at-30/

#php #30yearsofphp
The Herd Is Strong: PHP and Its Developer Ecosystem at 30
PHP now is worlds apart from the humble toolset launched 30 years ago — helped by modern frameworks like Laravel & new tools like FrankenPHP.
thenewstack.io
June 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
typo3.com
We’re proud to be a partner of #PHPverse – Celebrating 30 Years of PHP!
Join us on June 17 for a free online event packed with expert talks, community connection, and a look into the future of PHP.

More info at buff.ly/eblORc8

#30YearsOfPHP #PHP #TYPO3
June 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
phpc.social
Original post: fosstodon.org/@shawnhooper...
The PHP programming language turns 30 today. It was one of the earliest programming languages I learned (after Perl) and the one I’ve use for the longest. From WordPress, which employed me and powered a speaking a teaching part of my life, to Laravel which is the base of most of my projects now, PHP has been a huge part of my career and hobbiest web development. Through those projects, I’ve made many long lasting friendships. Happy Birthday PHP! #30yearsofphp #php #wordpress #laravel
June 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
phpc.social
Original post: norden.social/@s2b/1146541...
I started toying around with the web way back in school and soon started breaking and debugging my first instance of phpBB2, which I hosted on an ad-based PHP hoster. This language taught me cowboy debugging, and it was so much fun! Fast forward: My knowledge of PHP and the experience I mostly gained from dissecting OpenSource projects landed me my first job at an agency, and it still pays my rent to this day. Thank you, PHP! #30YearsOfPHP
June 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
phpc.social
Original post: chaos.social/@sneufeind/1...
Congratulations and thank you to everyone involved in #30YearsOfPHP I've been around since the early days, contributing only a bit to the #PHP core itself, but mainly as a developer for the #pear repository, at conferences (#LinuxTag, #PHPConference) or projects like #TYPO3. It's great to see the language evolve, how clean and versatile components and libraries have become. It helped shape the internet, with a lot of (also excellent) languages along the way. Thanks for a lot of great friends! 🥰
June 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
phpc.social
Original post: mefi.social/@jimw/114649...
#PHP is for the web. What brought me to using PHP in 1996 was creating interactive web pages for the educational software company I worked at. I got involved with the project when it didn't yet do what I needed. It exploded in use because it made it really easy to build for the web in a way that no other languages ever have. It didn't start out as a sophisticated programming language, but it is now. And it's still fantastic for the web. #30YearsOfPHP
June 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
phpc.social
Original post: phpc.social/@Crell/11465...
I recently joined a startup. Nearly the entire code base was build by a single person over 3 years, who was learning programming as he went. Yep, he used #PHP. Is it good code? Not by a long shot, though I've definitely seen worse. But it *works*, runs, and is making money. Now we can work to make it better, and make even more money. *That* is why PHP is so popular, and still so relevant after #30YearsOfPHP. It's both a blessing and a curse, at times, but PHP lets people just get sh*t done.
June 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM